Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 2004, 37(2): 276-285

This article presents Greg Newbold's response to an article by Judith Buckingham in the same edition of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology. Buckingham criticises Newbold for erroneously depicting women in relation to gender symmetry in DV and women in the criminal justice system more generally, and, through his work, the PhD thesis of a former student, Samantha Jeffries. In his response to Buckingham's article, Newbold argues that Buckingham's views are not supported by evidence, and that she has misunderstood Jeffries' thesis, and misconstrued and misrepresented Newbold's book Crime in New Zealand in relation to women's role in domestic violence. He notes his book deals specifically with judicial inequalities in relation to gender in just four of the 279 pages. Refutations of Buckingham's criticisms of the book are discussed extensively in the article. Newbold also states that Jeffries' doctoral research (which found that, holding relevant sentencing factors constant, there are significant gender differences in sentencing) was affirmed by the two internationally eminent feminist criminologists who examined it.